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The Genomic Repairman is currently a Ph.D. student who escaped from the deep south, and studies DNA damage and repair through biochemical and genetic approaches. He intends to use pine away about his scientific interests and rant about the things (and there are lots of them) that annoy him.

My posts are presented as opinion and commentary and do not represent the views of LabSpaces Productions, LLC, my employer, or my educational institution.

so after last week's anger stroke almost took me out, I'm here to report back on what's shakin. So in the past three weeks, I have have had to learn the background literature on an off-topic, come up with some hypotheses and experiments and prepare a rough draft of an F32 style postdoctoral fellowship proposal. And I'm doing this while still holding down around 40 hours a week in the lab, to tell you this has been nothing short of excruciating is painful is being modest. Now that I'm on the other side and have a week to revise and edit my proposal, its been a great exercise. Eventually in your career you will have to come up with something new. I found a gap in the science that looked interesting, cobbled together a hypothesis on what the heck is going on, and crafted together some reasonable experiments to test my hypothesis. If this thing were like a movie, it would be as if a slasher film, sports flick, action movie, and softcore porn got together and had a baby. Its got everything, mechanistic studies, mouse models, someone getting shot out of a cannon that is being circumnavigated by midgets wearing leotards and tutus while the William Tell Overture plays in the background. But its not over the top, the F32 is a mechanism designed to support a postdoc for a maximum of three years and thus I had to taper down some of the work and really focus on answering the pivotal questions first. You gotta leave room for that extraneous to be filled in once you get that sweet tenure-track position after you knock it out the park as a postdoc. This process has been a fun, I've seen crazy shit happen like when inserting a figure I made into word, while trying to drag it across the screen it looked like it was poppin and lockin with my figure legend. Very cool. EndNote went on a fucking whiskey bender and screwed up a lot of my citations that had to be fixed. Not cool. And I was either so sleep deprived, drunk, or both that I thought I saw Clippy even though he's not in Office 08.